love suffering

[Spiderman]

Saint Dominic used to tell people to pray for the grace to love suffering. I'm praying very much for that grace because I hate suffering and life is full of it. However, just because I hate suffering, I can't deny that it is often good for me.

It makes me stronger, increases my tolerance to suffering, makes me more compassionate and empathetic, atones for sin, makes me more humble, makes me less selfish, less annoying, more mature, more wise, and more enlightened. Those are good reasons to love suffering.

I have to wear depends because of a bladder injury and I can't tell you how much more humble that made me and detached me from vanity. I hate having bladder leakage and painful urinations, but it makes me far more humble and reminds me of what elderly people must go through.

So, I have given multiple reasons why we should love suffering.

Another more dogmatic approach is that we all must carry a cross scripture says. A cross is something you suffer torture and death on. According to Christian theology, the cross was a good thing. it was what defeated Satan and redeemed us. Our crosses (suffering), in union with Christ's cross, defeat the enemy of our souls, redeems us, and atones for the sins of the world (according to Christian thought).

This is not to advocate masochism, but sometimes no pain means no gain. I'm advocating that you can embrace your crosses and love the positive results that come from them and have faith that your suffering accomplishes something worthwhile in our world.

Either way, you will have to suffer and die. Accept it, offer it up to your higher power, rejoice in it, and have faith that you are suffering for the greater good.

 

[Shiranui117]

Saint Dominic used to tell people to pray for the grace to love suffering. I'm praying very much for that grace because I hate suffering and life is full of it. However, just because I hate suffering, I can't deny that it is often good for me.

It makes me stronger, increases my tolerance to suffering, makes me more compassionate and empathetic, atones for sin, makes me more humble, makes me less selfish, less annoying, more mature, more wise, and more enlightened. Those are good reasons to love suffering.

I have to wear depends because of a bladder injury and I can't tell you how much more humble that made me and detached me from vanity. I hate having bladder leakage and painful urinations, but it makes me far more humble and reminds me of what elderly people must go through.

So, I have given multiple reasons why we should love suffering.

Another more dogmatic approach is that we all must carry a cross scripture says. A cross is something you suffer torture and death on. According to Christian theology, the cross was a good thing. it was what defeated Satan and redeemed us. Our crosses (suffering), in union with Christ's cross, defeat the enemy of our souls, redeems us, and atones for the sins of the world (according to Christian thought).

This is not to advocate masochism, but sometimes no pain means no gain. I'm advocating that you can embrace your crosses and love the positive results that come from them and have faith that your suffering accomplishes something worthwhile in our world.

Either way, you will have to suffer and die. Accept it, offer it up to your higher power, rejoice in it, and have faith that you are suffering for the greater good.

I personally say that suffering for suffering's sake isn't something we should be encouraged to enjoy or revel in, especially when it involves financial or medical hardship. But as you said, enjoying the growth that comes from it is a good and valuable thing. I hate it when my body is aching two days after a workout, but the aching means I'm getting somewhere.

 

[Spiderman]

I personally say that suffering for suffering's sake isn't something we should be encouraged to enjoy or revel in, especially when it involves financial or medical hardship. But as you said, enjoying the growth that comes from it is a good and valuable thing. I hate it when my body is aching two days after a workout, but the aching means I'm getting somewhere.

True!

 

[PureX]

Saint Dominic used to tell people to pray for the grace to love suffering. I'm praying very much for that grace because I hate suffering and life is full of it. However, just because I hate suffering, I can't deny that it is often good for me.

I don't think we need to love it or hate it. I think we just need to accept that it will come and go in our lives, and unless we're bringing it upon ourselves, there really isn't much we can do about it but learn not to "spread it around" when it's our turn to suffer.

One thing I do know about suffering, is that it's made much worse by fighting with it. By presuming that we should not be experiencing it. By presuming that it must be 'someone's fault'. By demanding some reason for it, and so on. Sometimes it's just our turn to suffer. And that's it. There's no more to it then that.[/QUOTE]

 

[LukeS]

I hide from it in religion.